Trademark applications by nonresidents in Lesotho in 2020 — 1,973 filings. Ranked 106 in the world out of 135. Since 2018, the indicator has fallen by 7.5%.
2018–2020 · applications, class count
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Lesotho
| Year | filings | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,973 | −312 | −13.65% |
| 2019 | 2,285 | +153 | +7.18% |
| 2018 | 2,132 | — | — |
The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages
Applications to register a trademark filed in a country by nonresident applicants, counted by classes. As with patents, the indicator measures not the activity of the country itself but the appeal of its market: a mark is protected only where it is registered, so foreign companies register where they intend to sell. But the ratio to applications by residents works differently here than with patents: even countries that are not wealthy file many trademark applications of their own, because a small enterprise registers a brand too, while it has no inventions to patent.
Important: The classes of goods within applications are counted, not the applications themselves. The count includes marks received by an office through the Madrid System — the World Bank has no separate series for it.
Source: IP Statistics (WIPO), license CC BY 3.0 IGO.
How many trademarks residents of a country register in their own name per year.
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